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It's easy to hate the Ivy League. Also, it's fun.</p>
<p>Yet rarely do hundreds of people cheer wildly as some crazy-haired guy calls for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to be shut down. That's right: closed entirely.
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<p>From the article:</p>
<p>"But more interesting than the debate itself was the audience reaction. Anti-Ivy proclamations were greeted with enthusiastic whoops. It was as if everyone had finally been given permission to voice their long-held antipathy toward the elite. It was a mob scene, or as close as you're likely to get at a wine-and-cheese gathering on the Upper West Side."</p>
<p>Sounds like the same sort of cheering and applause you hear whenever someone bashes the USA in front of the UN General Assembly.</p>
<p>People like success, but they don't like too much success. The Ivy League, Microsoft, Nike, Disney, McDonalds, Starbucks, The New York Yankees, California, and the United States of America are all hugely successful organizations that also have legions of people that instantly hate them for their very success. Reaching above a certain level of success automatically paints a big red target on you.</p>
<p>coureur,</p>
<p>well put. Most of us absolutely hate elite organizations unless/until (cough, cough) we get in...then we become apologetic...</p>